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Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.

On this eve of another storm entering our hemisphere...

And no I am not speaking about Hurricane Alex which is headed for the Azores islands, so look out!
The hurricane will not be coming here to Florida, but a nasty weather system is on its way!
Our emergency management person has posted a map with where "our storm" will be heading with a blurb stating that it is not a tropical storm but a low riding the tropical jet stream by Sunday morning with the potential for damaging winds and thunderstorm type heavy rains. The next three days will be very, very unsettled starting tomorrow morning early.

Moving on...

Good news and questionable news!
Yesterday I did have my doctor's appointment and my A1c dropped from 6.0 to 5.9, yay!
My thyroid medication is working too as its proof no issues with my thyroid numbers, so my mcg amount is working.

My cholesterol is still up there in spite of being on the highest dose of simvastatin it is still only 191, and my triglycerides came down quite a bit, but still higher than they are supposed to be, but getting there, going from 267 down to 197! Although 150 or less is best.

I was given a cardiogram due to my breathing issue and it was NOT a text book result is what the doctor said and so next week I am having an echocardiogram and a sitting stress test; okey dokey; so we will see what we will see...Oh and my neck seems better with no collar used for over a day now.

And no we did NOT win the 1.5 Billion, but did buy a ticket, only one quick pick; I knew you were wondering. (Insert BIG smile here.)

Tonight there is another GOP debate.
Has anyone but me wondered why so many?
I do know there are still way too many candidates but Gosh most don't have decent percentages to be legitimately considered true candidates anymore?
Just wondering why... ya know?

Many questions and not enough answers, but such is life as "they" say there "they" are again, no getting away from them, hmm, ha?

On this slightly lighter note wish us safe days ahead with all this chancy weather, and allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you to kindly count all blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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First one was my fairly new neuro, Dr. Lilliana Montoya, her nurse who called me back almost as soon as I left the message with me asking a few questions.
Like the fact that I had lowered my dosage on two medications for my spasms over weeks/months really, Baclofen down to 40 mg. a day unless I need more, which I have and I can take the additional amounts safely, and Gabapentin that I also lowered all the way down to 200 mg. a day. And now with this warmer weather and us going out more often it appears that I am being affected with it, since it has been causing more spasms. I have not been wearing my cooling vest either, since it is so bulky and this one has so many ice packs, too many in my opinion!
I do believe that is probably why, but not absolutly sure.
And apparently they have not received any of my blood work from the GP as of yet.
Angie, her nurse also thought I might want to move up my office visit to this month from my six month one in June, and she said she would ask the d…